+sept1c_tank Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 I usually think about geocaching around the time I wake up and at least once an hour until I fall asleep. If I get lucky and actually go geocaching, I generally think about it constantly. I occasionally dream about it too. How often do you think about geocaching? Quote Link to comment
+ParrotRobAndCeCe Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Sounds to me like someone needs a 12-step program Quote Link to comment
+CYBret Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Geo-whatzit now? Quote Link to comment
+AuntieWeasel Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Annually. On Dave Ulmer's birthday. Quote Link to comment
+E = Mc2 Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Uh, I don't understand the question... There are other things to think about? I'd have to say probably 1/2 dozen timesw a day, actually. Quote Link to comment
+clearpath Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Let's see ... when I'm not thinking about members of the opposite sex, food or beer then and only then am I thinking about tuperware. Quote Link to comment
+Deliveryguy428 Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 ::drooling and walking in circles in my padded room:: 24/7/365 Quote Link to comment
+Mystery Ink Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 (edited) I had a dream once where I thought someone placed a cache in front of my house the person didn't even live close to me. After I woke up I got on here and was just getting ready to Pm them asking them why they placed a cache in my front yard. Then I realised I didn't have that type of lightpole in front of my house so I stopped the msg just before I pressed send. So yes I think about it all the time. Edited February 20, 2006 by Mystery Ink Quote Link to comment
+Torchbearer Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Everyday. Wait, what is today? No, that's right. Everyday. Quote Link to comment
+bahama97 Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 I'm pretty new with this & I think about it everyday, several times a day. I had a caching dream last night LOL It's kind of funny, I was on a mad search for an altoid tin the other day & could not find it. However, in my dream, I found it right away! LOL Quote Link to comment
+Airmapper Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Ummmmm, A LOT. Quote Link to comment
+rjw661 Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Sounds to me like someone needs a 12-step program Hi, I'm RJW661 and I'm a compulsive geocacher. Quote Link to comment
+Lostboy1966 Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 I was going to reply to this thread, but I suddenly had an idea for a new cache. I’m going to my basement to start building it now… Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 I fall somewhere between Tank and Geoholic28. Suffice it to say that Geocaching has been on my mind daily since I first discovered the website on February 28, 2003, at about 7PM. Less than 12 hours later I was hunting my first cache with my trusty old GPS2000. I DNF'd that day, but I found it the next and the rest is history..... Quote Link to comment
+stormcloud Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Every day frequently. I have taken days off work to go caching. I am addict i admit it. They say thats the first step to a cure but who wants to be cured. Quote Link to comment
n0wae Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 I actually knew of Geocaching a couple of years before I got hooked. I just couldn't understand how finding a box hidden in the woods could be fun. It only took one find however to make a hopeless addict out of me... then my wife... and then it spread to all three of my grown children and even a few friends... It's sorta like a virus but with no cure... I'm doomed to think about it several times a day! Help!!! Quote Link to comment
+Nero Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 It's hard to say, i think about Geocoins more than caching! i actually havent been caching in over a month. been too busy. my gps has dust on it here on my desk! Quote Link to comment
+Foothills Drifter Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Howdy...... All the stinkin time Quote Link to comment
+fox-and-the-hound Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 All the time of course, but the worst is trying to get through the grocery store with all those beautiful containers in different shapes and sizes and materials and colors and... and.... .... Quote Link to comment
+Team Laxson Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Hah! FnH has me pegged! Every time we go grocery shopping my wife yells at me when I pass the storage containers. "No, you can't buy another one! You haven't even hid the last one I let you buy." But, but....I know where it's going to go!!!! Driving by caches I've found is the best though. hmmmm, I wonder if it's still there..... Quote Link to comment
+sarhound Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 OK, I admit I'm obsessed... Even the hounds are getting into caching. As soon as they see me pick up the GPSr and the PDA, they start heading for the door. Quote Link to comment
+TetrAmigos Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 You might be addicted to geocaching if: If you’ve ever walked past a Rubbermaid trash can and “just had to peek inside” to see if it was a geocache. (please feel free to continue it) Quote Link to comment
+JohnTee Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Went out to the local mall yesterday afternoon to see if I could get a reading under the skylight . . . had a satelite hit that I lost and then my battery died. Was reading in the forums last night about a couple having two GPSr's so they could both search without one following the other. Ended up dreaming last night that someone gave me a box of old GPSr's. One was so ancient that it had a cable antenna connector and power connectors on top and the face was just a single needle that you lined up with a slot in the face of the unit. Got a couple of 'old Garmins' and gave my son one so we could geocache together. Stupid dreams. I only had one GPSr when I woke up this morning! JohnTee Quote Link to comment
bogleman Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 How often do you think about geocaching? No OCD here but I do think about everything related to geocaching on a regular basis. The most recent thing on my mind has been the business end of geocaching. I have been taking some management classes and it is neat to compare the two. You can see examples of failures & success and determine what was the cause and how direct input from the customer makes things more user friendly - show me the money. Lurking the forums is fun and it is nice to see how things progress and how things are handled . Quote Link to comment
darwinmay Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Usually every 2 hours or so. The thought is most often something to the effect of "I need more caches to find. When will the other locals hide more dadgum caches?" followed by "Why don't I hide a cache? Oh, because I'm home alone and don't have any suitable containers. Dadgum!" Quote Link to comment
+Chinchilla_Man Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 I had a dream that I was going after a FTF on a multi and last stage was infected with Y. pestis (bubonic plague)! Quote Link to comment
+whistler & co. Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Probably more than we should... Even our four year old has dreams about geocaching (the last one involved Stiffler's brown dog, and the one before that was about getting lost in the woods with the GPS broken, which has never happened...YET). Quote Link to comment
+BillsBayou Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 Welcome to GA (Geocachers Anonymous) The 12 Suggested Steps of Geocachers Anonymous (not exactly 12-steps to STOP Geocaching, because who would want THAT?) 1. We admitted we were powerless over the urge to hide and find tupperwear--that our lives had become unmanageable. 2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves (Jeremy?) could restore us to a cache-rich existence. 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our distant hides over to the care of cache-adopters as we understood them. 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves, our tupperwear, Moun10bike coins, and little yellow Jeeps. 5. Admitted to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our DNFs. 6. Were entirely ready to have fellow cachers point out all our defects of coordinates. 7. Humbly asked forum admins to remove our flame posts. 8. Made a list of all persons we had led astray, and became willing to send swag to them all. 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others, or cost more than Dollar Store swag. 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly edit our listings. 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with satellites, as we understood them, praying only for knowledge of a good WAAS signal, and a good supply of AA's to carry that out. 12. Having had a good signal day, awaken as the result of these signals, we tried to carry this message to Geoholics, and to practice these principles in all our hides. (With all appologies and respect to AA, their members, and their goals) Quote Link to comment
+Ambrosia Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 (edited) I just watched a tv show and a movie that had clear references to caches that I've done (and an idea for one I want to create now). It's everywhere man....even if I wanted to stop thinking about it, I couldn't. It's like a conspiracy. Edited February 20, 2006 by Ambrosia Quote Link to comment
BRTango Posted February 20, 2006 Share Posted February 20, 2006 I think about it several times a day... it drives my wife nuts. Unfortunately I can't get out nearly as often as I'd like. I have to admit, I haven't dreamt of caching yet, but I can easily see that happening. I am glad to see that I'm not the only one. If only I could make a living at this Quote Link to comment
+What rock? Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Well, it is now impossible to drive any where without looking at surroundings and wondering if that would be a good place for a cache or to pass a sale table and looking for good swag. Quote Link to comment
+El Diablo Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Just once, and now look at all the problems it caused me! El Diablo Quote Link to comment
+Tonylama Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 I admit it - its alot - but pretty much only when I'm awake - or right after I fall asleep - and then also in the few minutes before I wake up - when I'm having that last minute dream (about caching) that I remember in the morning... that pretty much covers it... Ironically, it's while I'm geocaching that I am most able to think about other stuff Quote Link to comment
+ghs Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Your topic keeps on cycling to near the top so I had to eventually get caught by it. It occurs to me that people who don't think about geocaching a lot probably don't hang around forums devoted to it much either. (As for me, if I don't quit thinking about it as much as I do, I might have a few more "life problems" soon.) Quote Link to comment
+TruckerGeorge Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 as an over the road truck driver, I go down the road and say, hey there a neat area for a cache, or in a rest area that has no caches. I walk around during my breaks and say now there a cleaver spot and not a MICRO spot either. ok I hate micros, but to each their own. I wished there were more rest area caches out there for us truckers to actually take small breaks to find. I have a small list started but want to find more. TruckerGeorge Quote Link to comment
+TetrAmigos Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 I think about it so much, that I finally convinced the wife to join me. The moment was so important to me, that I posted and entire entry on our geocaching blog about it! (link in signature) Quote Link to comment
+reveritt Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Think about it? Man, if I actually thought about it, I probably wouldn't do it. Geocaching is one of those activities that it is best to simply enjoy, without too much thinking. Te more you think about it, the stranger it seems. I think all week in my little gray cubicle with the humming fluorescent lights. I don't want to think on the weekend--I want t walk in the woods. Quote Link to comment
+sept1c_tank Posted February 21, 2006 Author Share Posted February 21, 2006 ...It occurs to me that people who don't think about geocaching a lot probably don't hang around forums devoted to it much either... This may be true, but considering that in the last 7 days, there have been 136,178 new logs written by 22,539 account holders on this site, I suspect that there are a lot of (non-forum type) cachers out there who think about geocaching on a very regular basis. It would be interesting to know. Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 There I was dreaming when all of the sudden I found a hamster. This little guy was a smart one. He kept hitting my snooze button for me. Smart Hamster. I woke up late. Stupid hamster. Is that a geocaching reference in a dream? Quote Link to comment
+reveritt Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 There I was dreaming when all of the sudden I found a hamster. This little guy was a smart one. He kept hitting my snooze button for me. Smart Hamster. I woke up late. Stupid hamster. Is that a geocaching reference in a dream? Depends...are there droppings on your nightstand? Quote Link to comment
+TEAM RETRIEVER Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 I usually think about geocaching around the time I wake up and at least once an hour until I fall asleep. If I get lucky and actually go geocaching, I generally think about it constantly. I occasionally dream about it too. How often do you think about geocaching? Geez, I'm addicted! I am constantly looking at things as either trade items, containers, or hiding spots. Went to my grandparents for breakfast a couple of weeks ago and noticed that the peanut butter jar was almost empty. Asked grandma if she had a use for it when it was done! LOL! Later that same day, my daughter had a basketball game. While walking through the school hallway, I noticed a pencil on the floor that had been sharpened many times and thought to myself..."Hey, that will fit in the peanut butter jar I got earlier!" Yeah, it's become a disease!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment
+Monkey Toes Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 I guess I think about it once a day. Unless I'm thinking of a new cache, then it's non-stop until I get it out (like now). Sometimes it keeps me up at night. Other than that, I come by the forums several times a day when I'm at work. I check to see if my caches have been found daily. I check other caches that I've already found to see if anyone picked up my trade items, again, daily. Not too bad. Quote Link to comment
Rhialto Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 I heard of GC over a year ago on a local TV program and thought it was looking cool but that's it. Since a few weeks I don't remember what reminded me to it but now I think about it really often. Just 2 weeks ago I was looking at which GPS to get but I finally decided to put that on hold for now. I still keep reading about it like you can see! Quote Link to comment
+ZackJones Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 I think about geocaching way more than I care to admit. Quote Link to comment
+uncleboogie Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Sounds to me like someone needs a 12-step program Hi, I'm RJW661 and I'm a compulsive geocacher. (the crowd replies) Hi RJW661 Quote Link to comment
+Jennifer&Dean Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Tried the 12 Step Program and discovered that it really didn't help. Even worse it seemed to make us think about caching MORE. And we already think about it all the time. Quote Link to comment
+piscatore Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 When I go to the store, I look for cool swag. When I drive down the road, I look at all the guardrails. When I go out to my wood shop, I think about what I can make for an FTF prize. When I eat, I think about eating (yeah, I'm overweight.) When I'm on the computer, the Geocaching.com link calls to me. When I'm on the can, I wonder if there's enough TP. When I'm working... oh yeah, I'm retired. As you can see by this list, my life now consists of eating, s#!ting, and Geocaching. Ahh, the good life. Quote Link to comment
+4leafclover Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Sounds to me like someone needs a 12-step program just what the doc ordered Quote Link to comment
+4leafclover Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 my husband gets very angry with me because whenever we are going some where new, I always check to see if there are caches in that area. "Just once, I'd like to go some where where you don't think you have to cache!" good luck finding that place, bub.... Quote Link to comment
+maritimedriver Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Every day for the last seven weeks that I've had my leg in a cast and someone asks, "How'd you do that?" -And I can't wait to go and do it again. (Not the leg) Quote Link to comment
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